Simulated Interstellar Conditions Produce Glycine Peptides on Dust Grains, Implications for Prebiotic Chemistry
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Under near-vacuum, minus 260 °C conditions, glycine irradiated with cosmic-ray analogs forms peptides and water on dust grains, showing that the same bonding processes could create life’s building blocks in interstellar space before planet formation, a conclusion highlighted by Alfred Thomas Hopkinson and Sergio Ioppolo as expanding our view of prebiotic chemistry.
